BIRT Report Module Manual

Owned by Michael Aro
Last updated: Aug 23, 2012Version comment
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Overview

The BIRT Module was designed to provide an easy-to-use web interface for managing birt reports within OpenMRS.

Downloads

View/Checkout Source: http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs-modules/birtmodule
Download omod: 

Install BIRT Report Module to OpenMRS

  1. Download the latest BIRT Report Module (click the Download button).

  2. Login to OpenMRS as an administrator

  3. Navigate to Administration > Manage Modules

  4. Browse for .omod file that you downloaded

  5. Click the Add Module button

Documentation / How-To

You can access the report list using this suffix in your url: /module/birt/report.list

e.g.

http://localhost:8086/openmrs/module/birt/report.list

Screencasts

Final presentation: Creating and rendering a birt report 

Screenshots

Manage Reports
Create Report
Edit Report

Release Notes

Known Issues

Inability to read parameters from the XML design file and pass parameters to a report definition in openmrs 

Inability to run a report with a cohort filter

Birt can handle only one dataset effectively and not multiple datasets

Tickets, etc

All tickets for this module: https://tickets.openmrs.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?

More detailed information in JIRA if you search for

project = "BIRT Report Module" and issuetype="Any"

Screenshots

Assigned Developer

Michael Aro

Mentors 

Mentor: [Justin Miranda, Mike Seaton]